At least 10 major US airports say their rules prevent security officers from physically removing passengers from airplanes unless a crime is committed, meaning they would normally avoid incidents such as the one involving the passenger dragged off a United flight in Chicago. The April 9 incident sparked global outrage when images of a Vietnamese-American doctor being dragged through the aisle with blood on his face flooded social media and threw United into a public relations crisis. Officials at 10 of the busiest US airports - in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Dallas, New York, Denver, San Francisco, Las Vegas and Miami - said airport police would not physically remove a passenger from a plane over a seat dispute. “In a case like this, if it’s not a criminal matter, we don't involve ourselves,” said Michael Rodriguez, a spokesman with the Las Vegas Metro Police Department, which is responsible for security at McCarran International Airport. Security officials at other major airports said they had reviewed their rules and found them sufficient, with no need to amend them to avoid similar situations. Others said they had sent reminders to officers to avoid getting involved in such cases.<br/>
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Boeing Thursday asked the US Commerce Department to investigate alleged subsidies and unfair pricing for Canadian planemaker Bombardier's new CSeries airplane, adding to growing trade tensions between the US and Canada. The petition against Canada's new competitor to the Boeing 737 aircraft came just days after the Commerce Department imposed duties averaging 20% on imports of Canadian softwood lumber, saying that the product's origin from public land amounted to an unfair government subsidy. On Wednesday, US President Donald Trump told Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto that he intended to begin renegotiating the 23-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement, after White House officials said Trump had been considering an order to withdraw from the pact. Boeing said in its petition that Bombardier, determined to win a key order from Delta after losing a competition at United, had offered its planes to the airline at an "absurdly low" $19.6m each, well below what it described as the aircraft’s production cost of $33.2m. "Propelled by massive, supply creating and illegal government subsidies, Bombardier Inc has embarked on an aggressive campaign to dump its CSeries aircraft in the United States," Boeing said in its petition.<br/>
Central Japan International Airport began the construction Thursday of a commercial complex to showcase the first Boeing 787 jetliner, with the goal of a summer 2018 opening The first floor of the three-story complex — dubbed “Flight of Dreams” — will house the first test aircraft ZA001, while the other two floors will have shops and restaurants from where visitors can see the plane. “We want it to be a space overflowing with dreams,” Masanao Tomozoe, the president of the airport’s operator, said at a groundbreaking ceremony. On the first floor of the complex, which will be built south of the airport’s terminal building, there will also be an area where visitors can learn about how the 787 Dreamliner, which made its maiden flight on Dec. 15, 2009, is constructed.<br/>